Exercise capacity assessment in patients undergoing lung resection

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 419-422

  Bobbio, Antonio ^a   Chetta, Alfredo ^b   Internullo, Eveline ^a   Ampollini, Luca ^a   Carbognani, Paolo ^a   Bettati, Stefano ^b   Rusca, Michele ^a   Olivieri, Dario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Complications; Exercise capacity; Lobectomy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 60849092521     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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